ElectroVagrant

@ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

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3 yr. ago

Another traveler of the wireways.

Cryptocurrency orgs have done one job extremely well here, and that's blatantly demonstrate that the best way to try to fast track legislation is Big Money.

It's like how all the cryptocurrency screwups demonstrate why there are financial regulations to begin with, now they're inadvertently helping demonstrate extremely clearly why we need to get money out of politics.

politics @lemmy.world

apnews.com /article/crypto-coinbase-democrats-plouffe-a450a4a8dc8fac1fd94856f952c6263f

1y ago

Coinbase hires top political strategists as crypto industry shows off its newfound political might | AP News

1y ago

What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?

Personally I dislike anything with -verse involved because big companies have run it into the ground and then some.

The boring, dry ways of describing them work best in my opinion.

Federated forums is the driest, most technical and to the point but not very telling.

Swap out forum for link aggregator and you have similar, arguably even more technical (certainly more of a mouthful).

Connected/linked forums might be more approachable, more readily conveying how these are separate forums but networked together.

Cross-forums may work as well to the same end, but not sure how immediately understandable cross may be in this context and outside of gaming spaces.

Whatever the case I kind of think this has things backwards. What's more important than describing and talking about the backend tech is pointing people to any of the sites built with them that have anything of interest to them to bother with. I can't think of anything online I've ever gone to or used because someone told me it was using Apache, Nginx, phpBB, or like an Open Source Web Server or using such and such CDN.

The reason why is simple: next to nobody talks like that. The only people that might are deep in web dev.

1y ago

Is there any way to bring back a section of the Internet to those of us who want it to stay in the 2003-2010 and before era?

Keep an eye on !webrevival@lemm.ee, search via Marginalia Search, and check out the ooh directory among other things.

Also look out for webrings (or similar) on some of the sites you may find, as they can help you find other likeminded net people.

Some people are trying to bring back some of the old navigation methods, but with some improvements, to keep the open net around.

1y ago

Lemmy post relevancy

I don't know how accurate the stats are, but around the bottom of each instance sidebar they have a breakdown of users per day/week/month. I think that's supposed to pull not from signed in visits but whether they were active by voting/commenting/posting.

Excluding the instances you mention, there's still a sizable amount of people active if those stats are reliable.

You can see the weekly/monthly stats aggregated in the list view of instances on Lemmyverse:

https://lemmyverse.net/

1y ago

Lemmy post relevancy

Also while there's a modest amount of people here (I'd reserve small for under a thousand online, personally), many of them seem to have a rather narrow set of interests they like to engage with. Namely technology (self-hosting & Linux in particular), news (primarily to do with politics), and memes (a mix of things but largely politically-tinged, old memes, nostalgia-tinged).

Outside of these interests the next most active may be cute animals, comics, and video games with some gradually rising gardening, stitching, woodworking, art, and certainly other interest communities I'm forgetting or haven't noticed.

1y ago

What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

It's great! Also for anyone that happens to be in the overlap of people that enjoy chess and go, and want to play go online as well, there's online-go.com.

I don't know that it has all the features that Lichess does, but it does have puzzles, tournaments, custom games, and so on.

1y ago

What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

Gonna take this as a jumping off point to mention some software.

Wanna get into video editing? Shotcut's pretty solid in my experience.Into mind-mapping stuff? You might give Freeplane a look.Have a drawing tablet & want to use it to take handwritten digital notes? Check out Xournal++.Cross-platform Notepad++ alternative? Might give CudaText a try.

Could list off more but will leave it at a few for now.

1y ago

What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

In terms of fully free, obligatory mention:Your library may offer more than books alone, depending on how well supported they are. Borrow music, movies, sometimes even video games. For music and movies they may also offer these to borrow digitally as well via online services they coordinate with.

Voyager @lemmy.world

1y ago

Request: Search by URL (as available in Lemmy web UI)

1y ago

Do you also notice that a lot of Lemmy users do not get irony, sarcasm etc subtelty?

Yes. Alongside what others have mentioned, I think a couple factors are context oversight (in part from context collapse at times) and subsequent fumbling of code switching.

Many primarily comment in news or politics threads (see front pages with sort set to Active) or otherwise more serious communities, so I think it carries through in their other interactions elsewhere. It's something of a bummer because generally neither party to fumbled interactions feels good about it.

1y ago

SAVE Act: House Passes GOP Voting Bill That Could Disenfranchise Millions

The sort of bizarre thing about this kind of trash legislation is, if you take a moment to consider it as being in good faith (which it's not but...), it lays the groundwork for delegitimizing its own supporters.

If the elections were so insecure and widely defrauded as to justify and demand this legislation, then there's zero reason to believe those seeking to pass the legislation have any legitimacy whatsoever. After all, they may have only gotten their positions by exploiting the elections' insecurity, and if not exploiting it, benefiting from it nonetheless and should in turn resign instead of further diminishing the integrity of the governments' institutions.

However, obviously they don't want people to consider that angle, and this is mainly a means to disenfranchise voters and sow further institutional distrust while encouraging party loyalty, as there is no genuine basis for this legislation.

1y ago

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Besides the active forum with an off-topic section recommendation, I've gotten the sense a lot of this style of communication has shifted from forums to group chats in whatever messaging app people are using, whether it's Discord or Whatsapp or whathaveyou.

It's unfortunate as those aren't the same style at all, but seems to be how things are now. It's part of why I wish more fediverse instances would instead operate with a site mindset and try to build distinct identities. A few do and they're much more interesting for it imo, feeling like the small community site they are in a good way.

1y ago

Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions

Oh, at the time of writing I wasn't sure if the thread title would display in their notifications with the mention, so I wrote that just in case.

1y ago

Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions

Meant to comment this earlier. On your last point so far as I'm aware there's currently no way to create a link post (direct URL lemmy link as you say) from Mastodon/microblog to Lemmy. The reason your test post is linking back to the Mastodon instance is because of the image attachment, because you can create image posts between the two.

If you drop the image attachment, while it won't look as nice, you can get the separate title, link, and body text without it looking too bad. Unfortunately it will lose the visual draw in the process, but that seems to be the workaround for the time being.

1y ago

Mastodon to Lemmy post formatting rules questions

The main ones would be @nutomic@lemmy.ml and @dessalines@lemmy.ml, which I just mentioned so should be no need to mention again I think.

Btw for their benefit, adding the context: post with feedback and questions on Lemmy-Mastodon interoperation.

1y ago

The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind

It may not do much depending on the mods/admins, but it never hurts to report and downvote comments or posts like that.

Emphasis on reporting there, as I think sometimes that stuff lingers around because people have made a habit of only downvoting and blocking those doing that regularly. I realize in your examples it's more likely bias or bigotry respectively, but still.

Report first, then downvote and block. Doing only the latter only makes your experience a little better, the former may help the community.

1y ago

What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there's a decent amount.

The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one's uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.

Fediverse @lemmy.world

1y ago

Resources for discovery across the open social web/fediverse

1y ago

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Fediverse memes @feddit.uk

In other words, vibe coders are today's technologically accelerated script kiddie.

That's arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid's cobbling together of code may have demanded.

1y ago

be the change you want to see

1y ago

Does anyone here use RSS, and do you have any recommendations for feeds to follow?